The Degree Confluence Project has been fascinating me since a long time. Because one of my favourite hobbies is travelling with my GPS receiver, I frequently visit this site. My first visited CP (48°N,012°E; without a report) was only approximately 30km away from my former domicile.

During a journey with a cruising ship (with approx. 260 passengers) from Tierra del Fuego to the Antarctic Peninsula and back I saw, that we will pass two CP in Chile. One of them is 55°S,067°W.

Our ship reached Cape Hoorn on the morning of 13-December-2003 and because of the exceptional calm weather, we were able to land on the island. One picture shows the Albatross Monument, which was erected to honour the numerous seamen, who died in these waters.

After the visit of Cape Hoorn, the ship headed north towards the Beagle Channel.

On the nautical chart, I saw that we will pass the Confluence Point 55°S,067°W. Due to big scale of the chart, it was not clear, if the CP is located on the Picton Island, the Beagle Channel or on our course between the Islands of Navarino and Picton. So I waited on the deck and watched on my GPS receiver, how the distance decreased.

The shortest distance was 5.45km. I took immediately the photos: towards the east with the Picton Island where the CP is probably located, to the north showing the Beagle Channel and Tierra del Fuego, to the west with the Navarino Island (observe the snow in late spring!) and to the south with the Islands of Lennox (south-west) and Nueva (south-east) in the background (in the foreground the Islands of Picton and Navarino).

Near the CP we turned into the Beagle Channel and passed a wreck, that proofs how dangerous these waters can be.

The last picture was taken from the Beagle Channel and shows the Island of Picton.

Later I could see on a more detailed Chilean nautical chart (No. 13200, preview on http://www.shoa.cl Servicios, Otros, Buscador de cartas), that the CP should be located on the north-east shore of the Island of Picton.